Improvement in sewing-machine journals



J. KLINE.

SEWING-MACHINE'JOURNAL. l No.178,303. VPa.*c.e11'cec1 June 5,1876.

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JACOB KLINE, OF CAMP HILL, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT iN `SEWING MACHINE JOURNALS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,303, dated June 6, 1876 application filed Aprn 3, 1876.

To'all whom it may concern: l Be it known that 1, JACOB KLINE, of Cam Hill, county of Cumberland and State of Y Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Sewing-Machine Journals, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this, specification, in which- Figure l is a transverse section of a bandwheel of a sewing-machine, having my journal attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a View of the journal-stud proper. Fig. 3 is a view of the compensating set-screw. Fig. 4 represents a series of washers or llers for the journal. Fig. 5 represents the usual lock-nut' employed to attach the stud to the machine-frame.

My present invention is related to that class of journals known as compensating-journals,77 which are specially designed to afford the means in themselves to take up the lost mo tion or Wabble of the band-wheel, resulting in consequence of the worn state of both the journal-surfaces and the conical seats in the wheel-hub, its general construction and arrangement being such that a conical-headed set-screw, constituting the front bearing for the hub, may be set closer up to a stationary conical bearing at the rear end of said hub. Said Set-screw is always set iirmly to its place of duty. The distance it can be advanced before it sets or stops depends on the number and the thickness of fillers or washers on its stem at its head. When the journal is new and unworn, the-conical heads are more distant from each other than subsequently, when the journal-surfaces have been worn. To set l u p or advance said set-screw, therefore, to compensate for wear, a surplus number of fillers are entered on the `screw-stem when the device is new, one or more of which can be afterward removed, thus allowing the screwhead to advance farther before the screw is stopped by setting on the remaining llers.

In the drawings, D H represent the bandwheel, having the conical seats H H in the ends of the hub. A B represent the conical bearings of the journal, the :former being a shoulder or butt on the stud N A, which has the attaching-shank N, as shown, and the screw T on thcend thereof, on which the nut X, which is a common lock-nut, is employed to connect the journal `to the machine-stand G. The bearing B referred to is the conical head of the set-screw C C', (shown in Fig. 3,) which screws into the body of stud A N, as shown, suspending on its stem C the llers W (shown in Fig. 4) as discous thin bodies.

It has been customary heretofore-on axles, for example to add washers to set the skein up farther on the arm of the axle, the washers being interposed behind the usual nut. It is obvious my present device differs from the foregoing, in the fact that my fillers are employed to make the journalthat is, the

`axle-arm-longer or shorter, which is effected by addition to or subtraction from it of fillers, the depth of the tapped hole A', Fig. 2, being suciently deep to allow the set-screw B C to be entirely denuded or stripped of fillers, and set up with head B jammed directly against the front end of the stud A N.

When the journal is first tted to the wheel a surplus length of journal is afforded by inserting several fillers on the set-screw, as stated 5 then, in course of time, as the wheel becomes loose and wabbly, one of the fillers may be removed, when, the set-screw being driven to its proper place, the wheel willy run true again.

The retention of the fillers in the journal is I a better method than to compensate by adding, for the reason that said devices are not liable to become lost, as would be the case were'they laid by until needed.

lhe construction of the parts need not be specified, as they are` clearly shown in the drawings, and have no novel features in form, except the peculiar form of the setscrew head, which is large compared with the stem thereof, and squarely formed at the inner end of the conical bearing thereon, to aord room on the said stem to locate and support the distancing-fillers on the said stem in such manner that when the fillers are on, and the sections of the journal applied to each other, the fillers may form a complementof the cylindrical body of the journal-arm A2, as shown Fig. 1.

I do not limit the use of my improved journal to sewing-machines, as I am aware it can be employed on other machines, and also as a good wrist-pin.

Having thus fully and clearly described my invention, what I'regardas new and useful, and what I desire to secure by Letters Patent, isexnbraced in the following:

I claiml. A sectional compensating-journal coml posed of two sections, each of which has a conical bearing, whose distance from each other is regulated by a variable quantity of fillers or washers interposed between the said sections, and supported on the set-screw stem, by which the bearings are connected7 substantially as set forth.

2. The journal-sections A N and B C, con- 

